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Python function to compare the bytes from two images to see if they're identical.
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isIdenticalImage.py
__author__ = "Austin Kelleher"
__email__ = "a@alk.im"
def isIdenticalImage(a, b):
"""
Returns true if an image, a, is completely identical
to an image, b, by comparing the bytes from each image.
a, and b, are the respected string paths to the images.
r+b is used so that this is functional on Windows/UNIX
"""
return open(a, 'r+b').read() == open(b, 'r+b').read()
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